Love's Course A boatman crossing Yura Strait Has lost his rudder, and the boat Is drifting with uncertain fate, Like love's course, indeterminate.
Only fate would decree how it reached its destiny, which always waited just around the corner, over the hill...
When you place your faith in fate, you deny yourself an honorable self existence and right to live in peace.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight...
When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what happens because of it. You must be alert to lie, and st...
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny...the time of reading, the time defined by the author's language resonating in the self, is not the world's...
Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those t...
The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his ear...
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my w...
I guess it was what my friend Phoolendu at the yoga studio would call kismet. That's like fate, but much more dramatic.
Love happens only once, what happens after that is just compromise; with your heart and with your life...
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.
There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.
Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.
Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
